The Chemistry
of Ozone Therapy on Cancer

Ozone therapy is the safest and most
effective cancer therapy I have ever found. An interesting
aspect of ozone therapy is that ozone has the ability
to selectively destroy cancer cells without damaging
healthy tissue.
See: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7403859

The growth of human cancer cells from lung, breast,
and uterine tumors was selectively inhibited in a
dose-dependent manner by ozone at 0.3 to 0.8 part
per million of ozone in ambient air during 8 days
of culture. Human lung diploid fibroblasts served
as noncancerous control cells. The presence of ozone
at 0.3 to 0.5 part per million inhibited cancer cell
growth 40 and 60 percent, respectively. The noncancerous
lung cells were unaffected at these levels. Exposure
to ozone at 0.8 part per million inhibited cancer
cell growth more than 90 percent and control cell
growth less than 50 percent. Evidently, the mechanisms
for defense against ozone damage are impaired in human
cancer cells.

Another interesting aspect of ozone when dealing with
cancer is that the ozone fights cancer through a variety
of mechanisms. Some of the anticancer effects of ozone
include:

Decreasing lactate levels preventing
its conversion back in to glucose through gluconeogenesis.

Immediate and direct destruction
of cancer cells through an overload of peroxide
within the cancerous cells.

Advantages of ozone over allopathic treatments include:

Cancerous cells cannot build up
a tolerance to ozone the way it can to chemotherapy
or radiation therapy. This is especially useful
for destroying metastasized cells that can migrate
in to the brain or bone where they are hard to treat
with allopathic methods.

Ozone therapy is not inhibited
by a poor vasculature within tumors as is the case
with chemotherapy and radiation therapy, which is
why these therapies have such low success rates.

Ozone therapy does not cause metastases
of cancer cells like biopsies and radiation therapy
can.

Ozone therapy is not carcinogenic
(cancer causing) or immune suppressing like radiation
therapy and chemotherapy.

Ozone stimulates the healing of
damaged tissues in low concentrations.

Ozone treatments can be self administered
at home.

Ozone therapy is cost efficient.
Cold corona units needed for therapy can be purchased
for between $500-1500, with an additional $200 for
an oxygen tank and regulator. The cost of oxygen
and electricity averages less than $0.10 per treatment.

To understand how ozone directly destroys cancer
cells we first need to go over some basic chemistry.
Ozone is generally accepted as being O3, although
higher allotropes (O4 and up) do exist. If I write
up the formula this way O:O·O we can see that
two of the oxygen atoms are stable due to paired electrons,
but the third oxygen atom is not. This makes the ozone
molecule itself unstable and reactive. As the ozone
molecule is broken down singlet oxygen (O1 or O·)
is formed. Singlet oxygen is one of the strongest
oxidizers known, with only fluorine exceeding it in
oxidation power.

The oxygen we breath, O2, is stable because it has
paired balancing electrons (O:O). Singlet oxygen (O·)
on the other hand does not have a paired electron
to stabilize it. This makes the singlet oxygen highly
reactive since it is needs to seek out an electron
it can steal so it can stabilize itself. For example,
as ozone breaks down the singlet oxygen atoms released
can react with each other to form a more stable O2.

Other sources for singlet oxygen to obtain electrons
from to stabilize can include carcinogens, cancer
microbes, water and lipids (fats). It is this reactivity
that allows ozone to have so many anticancer properties.
These anticancer properties include:

Killing cancer pathogens by either
reacting with the lipids in the membranes of the
pathogen creating lipid peroxides destroying the
pathogen directly, or by reacting with water to
form hydrogen peroxide that in turn destroys the
pathogen.

Destruction of carcinogens, such
as xenoestrogens through oxidative destruction by
ozone.

Peroxides formed by ozone increase
production of immune supporting cytokines.

Peroxides created by the reaction
of ozone on water lead to cellular apoptosis (self
destruction) of low adenosine triphosphate (ATP)
containing cells such as aged cells and cancerous
tumor cells.

Both lipid peroxides and hydrogen
peroxide created during ozone therapy increase white
blood activity, which are a primary component of
the immune system.

The formation of lipid and hydrogen
peroxides lead to the selective destruction of cancerous
tumor cells through an overload of peroxide within
the cells.

Before I go any further though, I need to point out
a key difference between cancerous tumor cells and
healthy cells. This will help explain how ozone selectively
kills cancer cells.

Healthy cells contain antioxidant enzymes known as
catalase (CAT), glutathione peroxidases that break
down peroxides to protect healthy cells from oxidative
damage by these peroxides.

Peroxides though are required for a number of functions
within the body. These functions include destruction
of pathogens, activation of white blood cells, stimulating
production of immune enhancing cytokines and destruction
of cancerous cells by natural killer (NK) cells.

Cancerous cells are often hard for the immune system
to detect since they can “shield” themselves
from the immune system to avoid detection. When the
immune system is able to detect cancerous tumor cells,
NK cells attach to the cells. Once attached NK cells
inject peroxide in to these cancerous cells. Unlike
healthy cells though, cancerous cells lack sufficient
levels of CAT and peroxidases. This is an Achilles’
heel for cancerous cells. Because cancerous cells
are deficient in these enzymes peroxide entering the
cancer cells will swell these cancer cells to the
point of rupturing. This selectively kills the cancer
cells without destroying healthy cells since healthy
cells contain sufficient levels of these enzymes to
break down the peroxides harmlessly in to water and
oxygen.

Ozone has a very similar effect on cancer cells as
NK cells. When ozone reacts with the lipids (fats)
of cancer cell membranes lipid peroxides are formed.
Singlet oxygen formed from the breakdown of ozone
will also form some hydrogen peroxide by reaction
with extracellular water. These peroxides enter cancer
cells causing the cancer cells to swell until they
burst. During the process more singlet oxygen is generated,
which in turn creates more peroxides leading to a
chain reaction. Therefore, very small amounts of ozone
are capable of destroying extensive amounts of cancer
cells upon contact.

One study performed in Germany found that when ozone
was injected in to mammary carcinomas of mice that
the tumors were completely destroyed within 5 minutes
of injection. There was no damage to surrounding healthy
tissue.

Ozone therapy must be properly administrated with
the proper dosage for the therapy to be safe and effective.
Therefore, ozone therapy should not be applied without
proper knowledge and training.

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